In the 1980s, a Communist-era television tower was erected in Prague, ruining its picturesque skyline. Now you can stay at a hotel with a view that’s guaranteed not to include the tower, because it’s located inside the tower itself, perched 230 feet over the city.
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Perched on the edge of an abandoned quarry in Wales, this home was designed by Hyde + Hyde Architects for a photographer. That’s appropriate, since its long cantilevered living room acts like an architectural aperture with a glass "lens" at one end. And yes, that is a DeLorean in the driveway. [DesignBoom]
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Last night, Shigeru Ban became the 37th winner of the "Nobel for architecture,"
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Brace yourselves. This newly-uploaded video shows two people walking to the edge of the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere—One World Trade—and jumping off. And here we were, thinking that a 16-year-old was all that for sneaking past a guard or two
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Climb into a sinkhole of bureaucracy in Pennsylvania (no, really, it’s a cave), explore San Francisco’s most storied structure (not the Golden Gate bridge), and jet off to to Myanmar (or is it Burma?). Plus, SCARY CLOWNS! In this week’s Urban Reads.
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Undulating through the air, the winning design for China’s pavilion at Expo Milan 2015 resembles a field of wind-swept wheat. The wave-like roof of bamboo panels is both a play on the expo’s theme, "Feeding the Planet – Energy for Life," and a reimagining of China’s traditional shingled roofs. [Studio Link-Arc via My Modern Met]
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The Pritzker Prize is a little bit like the Oscars of architecture: It usually ends up being a chance for everyone to air their complaints about the industry. But every so often, there’s a real cause for celebration—such is the case today, when the jury announced that Japanese architect Shigeru Ban would become 2014’s recipient.
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The architects at London-based Buchanan Partnership have just built this tiny little flower stall for a shop in Ladbroke Grove, its CNC-milled exterior inspired by the rippling textures of electron scanning microscope images of plants.
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Many extreme roller coaster these days have vertical loops. Have you noticed that these loops are never circular? Why is this?
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Nowadays, shopping malls are seldom considered masterpieces. But that was completely different at the turn of the 19th century—a time when the department store was a pinnacle of high style and technology.
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